The Case Against Dropping College Debt

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🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

No to a student loan bailout. No to debt-free state schools. Prepare to be enlightened, if a bit disheartened, as our friend Adam Davidson explains why eliminating college debt falls short of solving the country's inequality crisis. Davidson is a contributing writer for the New Yorker. For the Spiel, it's another Lobstar of the Antentwig. Today's sponsor: Placemakers, a new Slate podcast made possible by JPMorgan Chase. This podcast tells the stories of neighborhoods, businesses, and nonprofits that are working together to move their communities forward. Download and subscribe to Placemakers wherever you get your podcasts. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	It's Friday, October 21st, from Slate It's the Gisdai Mike Pascha, and I am here with
0:12.9	a message of hope, a forward-looking message of hope.
0:16.2	But to get to the hope, let us now plow through the dope, here is Donald Trump from last
0:20.2	night's Al Smith Dinner.
0:22.7	Everyone knows, of course, Hillary's believed that it takes a village, which only makes
0:29.0	sense after all in places like Haiti, where she's taken a number of them.
0:37.6	Joining me now is Al Smith, hello Al.
0:39.6	Hey, how you doing?
0:40.6	Good, Al was that funny.
0:41.9	No, it wasn't really funny at all.
0:43.5	And how do you know that it wasn't funny?
0:45.0	I didn't laugh, it was awkward and silent, it was just really bad, it wasn't a good joke.
0:49.0	Alright, the actual Al Smith, who works at Slate, what is your position?
0:52.7	I'm the director of strategy.
0:54.2	Wow.
0:55.2	Do you have any comedy credentials?
0:56.4	I did UCB for about six years and I got thrown out of a lot of elementary school classes
1:00.6	for being a jackass.
1:02.0	Yeah, well, Donald Trump got kicked out of second grade, he did punch his teacher in
1:05.6	the face in second grade and got shipped up to a boarding school.
1:08.0	Sounds about right.
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